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November 27, 2019 Episode 12: The Play’s The Thing (feat. Cass Morris!)
We're joined this week by glamorous guest star Cass Morris, Shakespeare scholar and author of FROM UNSEEN FIRE, to talk about art and pop-culture in fantasy worldbuilding!

The transcript for this episode is here. Thank you to our excellent scribes!
1 hr 4 min
November 13, 2019 Episode 11: Threads of Life
Rowenna and Alex are going a bit feral this week to talk about fiber arts! Marshall Ryan Maresca asks some good smart questions!
The transcript for this episode is available here. Huge thanks to our scribes!!!
58 min
October 30, 2019 Episode 10: Death Becomes Us
On this very spooky episode of WFM, we're discussing the customs and practices surrounding death!

The transcript of this episode is available here. (HUGE THANKS to our wonderful scribes!!!)
1 hr 1 min
October 16, 2019 Episode 9: Picking the Ties that Bind (with guest star RJ Theodore)
Author RJ Theodore joins us this week to talk about worldbuilding family structures!
Episode transcript here.
1 hr 4 min
October 02, 2019 Episode 8: A Trip Over the Tongue
On today's episode we're finally getting around to naming some stuff, and that means we're talking about languages! Conlangs, language and culture, lots of tasty stuff!

The transcript document is here.

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1 hr 3 min
September 18, 2019 Episode 7: Just Shake and Add Magic
Today we're talking about building magic systems into the world!
The transcript for this episode can be found here. (It's still in progress, so if you'd like to transcribe a couple minutes to help out your fellow World Builders, feel free! :D)
1 hr 2 min
September 04, 2019 Episode 6: An Interlude with Spreadsheets (with guest star Jenn Lyons!)
We're joined today by Jenn Lyons, author of THE RUIN OF KINGS, to talk about methods of organizing your worldbuilding! We give some cool recs for programs to use, and some of us admit to using more simple and chaotic methods of keeping everything in line.
The transcript of this episode is available here. Thank you so much to our amazing scribes who have volunteered their time to assist with this: Eunice, Kate, and C, you're amazing!!
57 min
August 22, 2019 Episode 5: People in a Petri Dish
This week we're talking big questions about people, culture, population, and technology! Let's make some civilizations!
Read the transcript here!
59 min
August 07, 2019 Episode 4: Civilization and You! (with guest star Fonda Lee!)
This week we are joined by the amazing author Fonda Lee to talk about the basics of creating civilizations for your fantasy world!

Read the transcript here!
Check out the map here!
54 min
July 24, 2019 Episode 3: As Narrated by David Attenborough
We're talking about building flora and fauna for the world! Come get some biomes!

Transcript available here.
1 hr 1 min